Wayside Livery

06/09/2025

🍁🐴 Winter Livery Spaces Now Available at Wayside Livery (Somerset/Dorset Border) 🐴🍁

We have a few rare full livery spaces available and would love to welcome new horses before winter sets in. At Wayside Livery, we pride ourselves on genuine, all-inclusive 5⭐️ horse care and a beautifully designed yard.

🌟 Facilities at Wayside Livery
• Purpose-built, thoughtfully renovated yard
• All-weather woodchip turnout pens with post & rail fencing
• Year-round turnout options (individual, paired, day or night)
• 35m x 55m floodlit arena with all weather surface
• Horse walker
• Quiet off-road hacking track around the farm
• 3 wash bays (one with solarium)
• Rug washing & drying facilities
• Secure, individual tack rooms (approx. 4ft × 10ft each)
• Friendly and comfortable tea room for owners
• Ample parking for trailers & horseboxes
• Excellent mud control – we’ve invested in surfaces and drainage to keep mud to a minimum through the wet months
• Regular visits from Grand Prix dressage trainers for those who’d like to take their training to the next level

💜 Care & Services (all included)
• 7-day full livery, 365 days a year (£175/week)
• Feed & supplements (nutritionist formulated)
• Ad-lib hay & quality bedding (shavings or straw on request)
• AM & PM muck out, daily skip-outs, poo picking, rug changes
• Therapy support (EquiPod, ActivioMed FMBS rug, red light therapy)
• Supervision for vet, farrier, physio & dentist visits
• Friendly, knowledgeable yard team who treat every horse as their own

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📍 Location: Horsington, Somerset (BA8 0DD) – convenient to Sherborne, Wincanton & Yeovil
📞 Contact Alice on 07890 795537 or visit wayside-livery.com

03/03/2025

SPACES AVAILABLE FROM EARLY APRIL

5* 7 Day Full Livery services for any owner looking for the best care for their best friend.

Here at Wayside we offer an all inclusive livery package, we don’t believe in ‘add ons’. Your horse’s care is all inclusive, and thats why our package is too. From full daily care, feed and hay to supervising for Vet & Farrier visits, nothing to us is ‘extra’.

- 7 day full care – 365 days a year
- Ad Lib Hay
- Ad Lib Bedding (Miscanthus Shavings, Straw on request)
- On Site Nutritionist forumulated feed & supplement program
- Individual or Paired turnout
- Turnout times suited to each horse (hour, morning, afternoon, daytime, overnight)
- Daily horse walker use as required
- Weekly therapy treatments (EquiPod/FMBS ActivioMed Rug/Red Light Therapy)
- AM/PM muck out & regular routine skip outs
- Regular Poo Picking
- Supervision for the Vet/Farrier/Physio etc
- Large individual tack rooms (4ft x 10ft)
- Any & all additional care your horse needs (exercise is our only chargable extra)
- Everything needed to keep your horse happy!

Our facilities include:

- 35m x 50m All weather arena
- Spacious and airy fully rubber matted stables with automatic drinkers
- All weather lunge pen
- 3 All weather woodchip turnout pens
- Large individual tack rooms
- Indoor wash box with hot water & solarium
- 2 Outdoor wash boxes with hot water
- 4 Horse walker
- Hacking track
- 12 acres of well maintained fields

To find out more please get in touch via message, phone or email - 07890795537 - [email protected]

www.wayside-livery.com

14/05/2024

🐴 OPEN NOW & LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE - 🌟 5* 7 Day Full Livery services for any owner looking for the best care for their best friend. 🐴 To find out more please get in touch via message, phone or email - 📞07890795537 - ✉️ [email protected] - 🖥️ www.wayside-livery.com

08/05/2024

OPEN NOW & LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE

5* 7 Day Full Livery services for any owner looking for the best care for their best friend.

Here at Wayside we offer an all inclusive livery package, we don’t believe in ‘add ons’. Your horse’s care is all inclusive, and thats why our package is too. From full daily care, feed and hay to supervising for Vet & Farrier visits, nothing to us is ‘extra’.

- 7 day full care – 365 days a year
- Ad Lib Hay
- Ad Lib Bedding (Miscanthus Shavings, Straw on request)
- On Site Nutritionist forumulated feed & supplement program
- Individual or Paired turnout
- Turnout times suited to each horse (hour, morning, afternoon, daytime, overnight)
- Daily horse walker use as required
- Weekly therapy treatments (EquiPod/FMBS ActivioMed Rug/Red Light Therapy)
- AM/PM muck out & regular routine skip outs
- Regular Poo Picking
- Supervision for the Vet/Farrier/Physio etc
- Large individual tack rooms (4ft x 10ft)
- Any & all additional care your horse needs (exercise is our only chargable extra)
- Everything needed to keep your horse happy!

Our facilities include:

- 35m x 50m All weather arena
- Spacious and airy fully rubber matted stables with automatic drinkers
- All weather lunge pen
- 3 All weather woodchip turnout pens
- Large individual tack rooms
- Indoor wash box with hot water & solarium
- 2 Outdoor wash boxes with hot water
- 4 Horse walker
- Hacking track
- 12 acres of well maintained fields

To find out more please get in touch via message, phone or email - 07890795537 - [email protected]

www.wayside-livery.com

05/04/2024

26/02/2024

POSITION FILLED - HEAD GROOM & YARD MANAGER REQUIRED

We are a new small yard offering premium full livery services and we are looking for our live in head groom at our base between Sherborne & Wincanton, Somerset.

We are looking for someone who is hardworking, with a good sense of humor and a real love for happy horses.

You will be in charge of the day to day running of the yard, with assistance from part time help. We have a maximum of 12 stables & 2 pens which will include a mix of owners horses, youngstock & full 7 day liveries.

We have recently renovated our yard to a high standard, with new well thought out facilities. We have invested in tools & supplies to make yard life easier for our grooms, like electric wheelbarrows, running warm water & automatic drinkers.

You will be a highly valued member of our team, and your input towards the running of the yard would always be greatly welcomed. One of our owners has previously worked as a groom, so understands the challenges the industry can bring.

We've improved our infrastructure to keep mud to a minimum, for both staff and horses - making for an easier day's work all round!

We like our horses to be horses, so we make every effort to accommodate them as best as we can within a ridden working environment - and we would love our groom to focus on & enjoy this too.

5.5 days per week (to include 1 weekend day), 8 hours per day (7.30-5.30 with generous break times).

Super cute 2 bedroom cottage (sole use) included & pets, partners & own horse welcome (additional fee).

Other equestrian businesses on site, so potential to learn, train & grow in other parts of the industry at the same time.

1.5 pay on bank holidays & annual performance bonus.

Salary & benefits package £25-30k per annum.

Duties will include:

- Feeding

- Mucking out & poo picking

- Turning out

- Rug changes & feet picking

- Grooming & fussing!

- Lunging & exercising (riding not necessary)

- Keeping the yard tidy & smart

- Applying therapy devices to horses

- Handling horses for vets/farriers/physios etc

- General yard & grounds maintenance

Both owners work & live on site, so there is plenty going on & help at hand.

Please dm, message or call 07890795537 - or drop an email to [email protected]

www.wayside-livery.com

07/01/2024

We know horses.
With over 30 years of experience in a wide range of branches of the equine industry, at Wayside Livery, we know horses inside out.

We offer 5* Full Livery services for any owner looking for the best care for their best friend.

Facilities Built For Your Horse
We have rennovated our yard from head to toe, installing practical facilities designed with your horse and you in mind. From a range of year round turnout options, peaceful hacking track to large individual secure storage area’s, no stone has been left unturned.

Care From the Heart
Having kept our own horses in livery due to busy lives, we know exactly how it feels to share the care of your horse. Thats why we look after every horse here at Wayside Livery exactly as you would, down to every last detail.

All Inclusive Livery Packages
We don’t believe in ‘add ons’. Your horse’s care is all inclusive, and thats why our packages are too. From full daily care, feed and hay to supervising for Vet & Farrier visits, nothing to us is ‘extra’.